by A study of the King Juan Carlos University of Madrid has detected a significant evaluation between better performance in mathematics and the student who shares the main meal with his parents or someone in his family at least once or twice a week.
It is one of the conclusions of a research work prepared by the professor of Applied Economics Ismael Sanz, from the Rey Juan Carlos University, published by the Savings Banks Foundation (FUNCAS).
The study is based on data from the latest PISA report.the OECD international assessment of 15-year-old students in mathematics, reading and science, published on December 3 and who was also interested in the type of interaction between the student and his home.
So, 83.7% of adolescents said they shared lunch with their parents or someone in the family at least once or twice a week, a much higher percentage in the Spanish case (88.5%).
On the contrary, there is hardly any difference regarding the proportion of families that ask at least once or twice a week about what the student has done that day at school (77%), While in Spain there is more interest in instilling the convenience of continuing with studies (Baccalaureate or FP), 55.2% compared to 50.7% in the OECD.
Finally, 69% indicate that their family encourages them to obtain good grades, a figure also well below the 74.4% in Spain.
“In short, Spanish students They have greater interaction with their families, eating more frequently with them, and talking more about their studies and how they are doing at school,” explains Sanz.
On the other hand, the Spanish student They perceive that their families support them to a greater degree than the rest of the respondents.
At the aggregate country level “there is no clear relationship” between success in mathematics and the support that students feel, Well, Japan and Estonia have very good results in PISA and yet have a family support index lower than the OECD average. On the contrary, Ireland and Korea are among the countries where students feel the most support and also have very high performance.
According to Sanz, It is possible that, within each country, students who have more support from home if they can have better results in mathematics.
Regarding the family support index in Spain—and in the OECD as a whole— By gender and socioeconomic level, Spanish female students have greater support than them, a trend in favor of women which also occurs in the OECD average: there is more interaction in educational aspects with daughters than with sons.
Students from advantaged homes also have greater support, both in our country and in the OECD, and it is higher among native students than among immigrants.
Although in the case of Spain “There is a lack of evaluation between the global index of family support and mathematics results in PISA 2022,”“There is a positive and significant association with some of the questions and a negative one – also relevant – with others”.
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Thus, the student’s mathematics performance changes by 44 points in Spain (and 28 in the OECD) when they indicate that their parents or someone in their family eats the main meal with them at least once or twice a week.
“It is the highest positive association of the ten questions that include the global family support index” of PISA 2022.
